Featherstitch: Killing fsync() softly

Posted Oct 2, 2009 11:02 UTC (Fri) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
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Might this lead to full filesystem transactions someday?

NTFS in Vista supports some transactional operations (the ones which are easy to implement) and it really helps sometimes.

One can run a distributed transaction with database and filesystem as XA datasources. For example, I use it in a document management system - XA transactions guarantee that document data and metadata in the database are always in sync.

Featherstitch: Killing fsync() softly

Posted Oct 4, 2009 15:06 UTC (Sun) by TRS-80 (guest, #1804) [Link]

ZFS also has a transactional engine (DMU) underneath, although it's not exposed to user space.